Patrick Stewart Quotes

The military cannot be indifferent to its succession.

I have a very firm limitation in mind, but I don’t think the Joint Chiefs do. I know they don’t.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

The governor, for the time being, shall be commander in chief of the militia, appoint and commission all officers in the same below the rank of general officers; all general officers shall be appointed and commissioned by Congress.

Your commission constitutes you commander of all the forces … you are vested with full power and authority to act as you shall think for the good and welfare of the service.

The highest military authority cannot be divided.

The tradition of our Navy mandates that senior officials bear the ultimate responsibility for their command.

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

With such interference in my command I cannot expect to be of much service in the field

My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.

I started my career in the U.S. military. Traditionally, in the military... you either start with a technical background or a more leadership-focused one. I took the leadership path.

It would probably be a direct order, shape up your morale. And so he understands command. He understands how to delegate. And I think that [General John Kelly] will bring law and order.

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good